Re: Does anyone know how to put an HTA program to sleep?

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:52:20 -0500, "W C Hull"
<substitute1stInitial2ndInitialLastName51@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Michael,
>
>Thanks for the reply. One question though....
>
>I receive this same bit of code from another scripter who said that it would
>work fine unless PING is blocked by a firewall.

Not true. Any IP address in the 127.0.0.x range is a loopback address
and packets sent to those addresses never leave the computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback

> He also pointed me to this
>link but I tried it but my CPU went up above 50% and stayed there.
>
>Microsoft can show you how to mimic the sleep functionality.
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/htas/autorefresh.mspx

Hmm. That is unfortunate. The 'sleep' functionality seems to run
fine here.

Clay Calvert
CCalvert@xxxxxxxxxxx
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